You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
7. Click on “properties”

You should now be on a screen with something titled “Local Area Connection”, or something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other networks.

8. Right click on “Local Area Connection” and click “properties”
9. Double-click on the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” from the list under the “General” tab
10. Click on “Use the following IP address” under the “General” tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn’t matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).
12. Press “Tab” and it should automatically fill in the “Subnet Mask” section with default numbers.
13. Hit the “okay” button here
14. Hit the “okay” button again

You should now be back to the “Local Area Connection” screen.

15. Right-click back on “Local Area Connection” and go to properties again.
16. Go back to the “TCP/IP” settings
17. This time, select “Obtain an IP address automatically”
18. Hit “okay”
19. Hit “okay” again
20. You now have a new IP address

With a little practice, you can easily get this process down to 15 seconds.

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back.

A nice little tweak for XP. M*crosoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here’s how to get it back:

Click Start–>Run–>type “gpedit.msc” without quotes “”

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy–>Computer Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Network–>QOS Packet Scheduler–>Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab :

“By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”

2. type regedit > enter

3. browse folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\m*cro$oft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\InternetSettings

4. right click @ windows right > New > DWORD

5. type MaxConnectionsPerServer > u can set value (the more higher the no, the more good speed u get, eg : 99)

6. create another DWORD >type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

7. then put a high value as mentioned above

8. then restart I.E …

the actual site name u type is resolved to an ip address.

This translation is effected through what is called the

DNS (Domain Name System).

a record of its IP address is stored so that it can be recalled later without having to retrieve it again.

u will need to modify registry for this.

Start notepad & enter the following text into it:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es|Dnscache\Parameters]
“CacheHashTableBucketSize”=dword:00000001
“CacheHashTableSize”=dword:00000180
“MaxCacheEntryTtILimit”=dword:0000fa00
“MaxSOACacheEntryTtILimit”=dword:0000012d
Save this file, naming it dnscache.reg